Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 1993, 5:45 AM CDT for Gregg County, Harrison County, Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1993, 5:45 AM CDT (10:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1993, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Rusk County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 6 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 1:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-200800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 130 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO PLAGUE EASTERN TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...WESTERN AND NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA AS WELL AS EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 125 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN AREA TO EXTEND FROM NEAR COLLEGE STATION TEXAS TO FAIRFIELD TEXAS TO SOUTHEAST OF IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS TO FARMERVILLE AND WINNFIELD LOUISIANA. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED ON INTO THE GULF COASTAL WATERS. WITHIN THIS LARGE AREA THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING FROM TOLEDO BEND COUNTRY TO NEAR GLADEWATER TEXAS AND FROM KIETHVILLE LOUISIANA TO NEAR RODESSA LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHWEST NEAR 12 MILES AN HOUR. < RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE RANGED FROM NEAR 1/4 OF AN INCH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND 1/2 OF AN INCH IN SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS TO BETWEEN ONE AND TWO AND A HALF INCHES IN WESTERN LOUISIANA AND EASTERN TEXAS. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED IN SHREVEPORT AND BOSSIER CITY LOUISIANA AS WELL AS IN LONGVIEW AND MARSHALL TEXAS. THE DITCHES WERE REPORTED RUNNING FULL IN THE LONGVIEW AND CENTER TEXAS AREAS. RAIN...SHOWERS AND AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF EASTERN TEXAS...WESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE GROUND WAS RELATIVELY DRY PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF THIS RAIN EVENT...HOWEVER RUNOFF PROBLEMS WILL DEVELOP AS ADDITIONAL RAINS FALL.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 1:35 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-200800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 130 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO PLAGUE EASTERN TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...WESTERN AND NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA AS WELL AS EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 125 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN AREA TO EXTEND FROM NEAR COLLEGE STATION TEXAS TO FAIRFIELD TEXAS TO SOUTHEAST OF IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS TO FARMERVILLE AND WINNFIELD LOUISIANA. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED ON INTO THE GULF COASTAL WATERS. WITHIN THIS LARGE AREA THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING FROM TOLEDO BEND COUNTRY TO NEAR GLADEWATER TEXAS AND FROM KIETHVILLE LOUISIANA TO NEAR RODESSA LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHWEST NEAR 12 MILES AN HOUR. < RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE RANGED FROM NEAR 1/4 OF AN INCH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND 1/2 OF AN INCH IN SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS TO BETWEEN ONE AND TWO AND A HALF INCHES IN WESTERN LOUISIANA AND EASTERN TEXAS. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED IN SHREVEPORT AND BOSSIER CITY LOUISIANA AS WELL AS IN LONGVIEW AND MARSHALL TEXAS. THE DITCHES WERE REPORTED RUNNING FULL IN THE LONGVIEW AND CENTER TEXAS AREAS. RAIN...SHOWERS AND AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF EASTERN TEXAS...WESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE GROUND WAS RELATIVELY DRY PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF THIS RAIN EVENT...HOWEVER RUNOFF PROBLEMS WILL DEVELOP AS ADDITIONAL RAINS FAfLL.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 3:05 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-201000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 305 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO PLAGUE EASTERN TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...WESTERN AND NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA AS WELL AS EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 300 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN AREA TO EXTEND FROM NEAR COLLEGE STATION TEXAS TO CORSICANA TEXAS TO SOUTHEAST OF IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS TO NEAR RAYVILLE AND ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED ON INTO THE GULF COASTAL WATERS. WITHIN THIS LARGE AREA THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING IN A 25 MILE WIDE AREA FROM GLADEWATER TEXAS TO LEWISVILLE ARKANSAS AND IN A 20 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NEAR NACOGDOCHES TEXAS TO NEAR BENTON LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHWEST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE RANGED FROM NEAR 1/4 OF AN INCH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND 1/2 OF AN INCH IN SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS TO BETWEEN ONE AND THREE INCHES IN WESTERN LOUISIANA AND EASTERN TEXAS. AS OF 300 AM CDT RAINFALL AT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN LONGVIEW WAS 3.09 INCHES WITH 3.04 FALLING SINCE 1 PM...ALSO AT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN SHREVEPORT 2.63 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 1 PM. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED IN SHREVEPORT AND BOSSIER CITY LOUISIANA AS WELL AS IN LONGVIEW AND MARSHALL TEXAS. THE DITCHES WERE REPORTED RUNNING FULL IN THE LONGVIEW AND CENTER TEXAS AREAS. RAIN...SHOWERS AND AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION TODAY INTO MONDAY. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF EASTERN TEXAS...WESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE GROUND WAS RELATIVELY DRY PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF THIS RAIN EVENT...HOWEVER RUNOFF PROBLEMS WILL DEVELOP AS ADDITIONAL RAINS FALL. THERE WILL BE A BRIEF BREAK IN THE RAINS TODAY HOWEVER A WET PERIOD IS EXPECTED INTO TUESDAY.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 3:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-201000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 305 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO PLAGUE EASTERN TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...WESTERN AND NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA AS WELL AS EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 300 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN AREA TO EXTEND FROM NEAR COLLEGE STATION TEXAS TO CORSICANA TEXAS TO SOUTHEAST OF IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS TO NEAR RAYVILLE AND ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED ON INTO THE GULF COASTAL WATERS. WITHIN THIS LARGE AREA THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING IN A 25 MILE WIDE AREA FROM GLADEWATER TEXAS TO LEWISVILLE ARKANSAS AND IN A 20 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NEAR NACOGDOCHES TEXAS TO NEAR BENTON LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHWEST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE RANGED FROM NEAR 1/4 OF AN INCH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND 1/2 OF AN INCH IN SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS TO BETWEEN ONE AND THREE INCHES IN WESTERN LOUISIANA AND EASTERN TEXAS. AS OF 300 AM CDT RAINFALL AT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN LONGVIEW WAS 3.09 INCHES WITH 3.04 FALLING SINCE 1 PM...ALSO AT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN SHREVEPORT 2.63 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 1 PM. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED IN SHREVEPORT AND BOSSIER CITY LOUISIANA AS WELL AS IN LONGVIEW AND MARSHALL TEXAS. THE DITCHES WERE REPORTED RUNNING FULL IN THE LONGVIEW AND CENTER TEXAS AREAS. RAIN...SHOWERS AND AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION TODAY INTO MONDAY. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF EASTERN TEXAS...WESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE GROUND WAS RELATIVELY DRY PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF THIS RAIN EVENT...HOWEVER RUNOFF PROBLEMS WILL DEVELOP AS ADDITIONAL RAINS FALL. THERE WILL BE A BRI`EF BREAK IN THE RAINS TODAY HOWEVER A WET PERIOD IS EXPECTED INTO TUESDAY.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 4:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-201100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 425 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO PLAGUE EASTERN TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 420 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN AREA TO EXTEND FROM NEAR COLLEGE STATION TEXAS TO CORSICANA TEXAS TO SOUTHEAST OF IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS TO PINE BLUFF ARKANSAS TO TALLULAH AND ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED ON INTO THE GULF COASTAL WATERS. WITHIN THIS LARGE AREA THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING IN A 35 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NACOGDOCHES TEXAS ACROSS MARSHALL AND ATLANTA TEXAS TO NEAR LEWISVILLE ARKANSAS. ALSO MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS NOTED FROM EL DORADO TO NORTH OF MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS. > MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE RANGED FROM LESS THAN 1/4 OF AN INCH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND 1/2 OF AN INCH IN SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS TO BETWEEN ONE AND FOUR INCHES IN WESTERN LOUISIANA AND EASTERN TEXAS. AS OF 415 AM CDT RAINFALL AT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN LONGVIEW WAS 4.05 INCHES WITH 4.00 FALLING SINCE 1 PM...ALSO AT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN SHREVEPORT 2.94 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 1 PM. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED IN SHREVEPORT AND BOSSIER CITY LOUISIANA AS WELL AS IN LONGVIEW AND MARSHALL TEXAS. THE DITCHES WERE REPORTED RUNNING FULL IN THE LONGVIEW AND CENTER TEXAS AREAS. RAIN...SHOWERS AND AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION TODAY INTO MONDAY. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF EASTERN TEXAS...WESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE GROUND WAS RELATIVELY DRY PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF THIS RAIN EVENT...HOWEVER RUNOFF PROBLEMS WILL DEVELOP AS ADDITIONAL RAINS FALL. THERE WILL BE A BRIEF BREAK IN THE RAINS TODAY HOWEVER A WET PERIOD IS EXPECTED INTO TUESDAY.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 4:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-201100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 425 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO PLAGUE EASTERN TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 420 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN AREA TO EXTEND FROM NEAR COLLEGE STATION TEXAS TO CORSICANA TEXAS TO SOUTHEAST OF IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS TO PINE BLUFF ARKANSAS TO TALLULAH AND ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED ON INTO THE GULF COASTAL WATERS. WITHIN THIS LARGE AREA THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING IN A 35 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NACOGDOCHES TEXAS ACROSS MARSHALL AND ATLANTA TEXAS TO NEAR LEWISVILLE ARKANSAS. ALSO MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS NOTED FROM EL DORADO TO NORTH OF MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS. > MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE RANGED FROM LESS THAN 1/4 OF AN INCH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND 1/2 OF AN INCH IN SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS TO BETWEEN ONE AND FOUR INCHES IN WESTERN LOUISIANA AND EASTERN TEXAS. AS OF 415 AM CDT RAINFALL AT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN LONGVIEW WAS 4.05 INCHES WITH 4.00 FALLING SINCE 1 PM...ALSO AT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN SHREVEPORT 2.94 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 1 PM. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED IN SHREVEPORT AND BOSSIER CITY LOUISIANA AS WELL AS IN LONGVIEW AND MARSHALL TEXAS. THE DITCHES WERE REPORTED RUNNING FULL IN THE LONGVIEW AND CENTER TEXAS AREAS. RAIN...SHOWERS AND AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION TODAY INTO MONDAY. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF EASTERN TEXAS...WESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE GROUND WAS RELATIVELY DRY PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF THIS RAIN EVENT...HOWEVER RUNOFF PROBLEMS WILL DEVELOP AS ADDITIONAL RAINS FALL8. THERE WILL BE A BRIEF BREAK IN THE RAINS TODAY HOWEVER A WET PERIOD IS EXPECTED INTO TUESDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 5:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Marion | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Rusk | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 11:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Harrison, Rusk | 4 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Marion | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Panola | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.